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MALORY AND HIS EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARIES Adapting Late Medieval Arthurian Romance CollectionsMIRIAM EDLICH-MUTH

The late-medieval adaptions and compiliations of the Arthurian story are a European phenomenon that has sparked both mystification and controversy. Often dismissed as nostalgic recreations that attempt to halt

the literary tide, these ambitious projects saw adaptors from across Western Europe combining a vast array of prose and verse sources from different languages into encyclopedic narrative chronologies of King Arthur and his court. Ranging from ornate verse adaptations to heavily condensed prose works, the resulting texts reflect a process of translating, cutting and arranging Arthurian material into new literary incarnations, which nonetheless retain recognisable versions of the Arthurian story. This study re-evaluates Malory’s Morte Darthur and other contemporary collections, showing the complex ways in which they reshape their material.

$99.00/£60.00; February 2014 978 1 84384 367 2; eISBN: 978 1 78204 205 1 200 pp, cloth

REWRITING ARTHURIAN ROMANCE IN RENAISSANCE FRANCE From Manuscript to Printed BookJANE H.M. TAYLOR

Arthurian romance in Renaissance France has long been treated by modern critics as marginal —although manuscripts and printed volumes, adaptations and rewritings, show just how much writers, and especially publishers, saw its potential attractions for readers. This book

is the first full-length study of what happens to Arthur in the age of print, exploring the fascinations of Arthurian romance in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and studying the printers, publishers and booksellers who gave it new life.

$99.00/£60.00; January 2014 978 1 84384 365 8; eISBN: 9781782042013 14 b/w illus; 296 pp, cloth

SIR THOMAS MALORY: LE MORTE DARTHUR 2 Volume SetEdited by P.J.C. FIELD

Malory completed his Morte Darthur before March 1470. The manuscript is lost, but the two most important surviving witnesses to its text were both produced shortly afterwards: Caxton’s edition of 1485 and the Winchester manuscript, known to have existed around 1480

but lost until 1934. All major modern scholarly editions have favoured one of these to the point of preserving corrigible error. The present edition is based on the Winchester manuscript, but treats it merely as the most important single piece of evidence for what Malory intended, and the default text unless other readings are more probable.

$340.00/£195.00; December 2013 978 1 84384 314 6 984 pp, cloth

ROMANCE AND ITS CONTEXTS IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND Politics, Piety and PenitenceRALUCA L. RADULESCU

Although the anonymous pious Middle English romances and Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur have rarely been studied in relation to each other, they in fact share at least two thematic concerns, vocabularies of suffering and genealogical concerns, as this book

demonstrates. By examining a broad cultural and political framework stretching from Richard II’s deposition to the end of the Wars of the Roses through the prism of piety, politics and penitence, the author draws attention to the specific circumstances in which Sir Isumbras, Sir Gowther, Roberd of Cisely, Henry Lovelich’s History of the Holy Grail and Malory’s Morte were read in fifteenth-century England. In the case of the pious romances this implies a study of their reception long after their original composition or translation centuries earlier; in Lovelich’s case, an examination of metropolitan culture leads to an opening of the discussion to French romance models as well as English chronicle writing.

$99.00/£60.00; September 2013 978 1 84384 359 7; eISBN: 9781782041757 256 pp, cloth

ARTHURIAN LITERATURE XXX

Edited by

ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD &

DAVID F. JOHSON

The richness and interdisciplinarity of the Arthurian tradition are well represented by the

essays collected here, which range from early Celtic texts to twentieth-century children’s books, and include discussion of Welsh, Irish, English, French and Latin material in both literary and historical contexts. Many of the articles focus on less well-known late medieval versions of the legend, a somewhat neglected area until recently. Meanwhile, a contemporary approach to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight views the poem from the perspective of forest ecology.

$90.00/£50.00; December 2013 978 1 84384 362 7 192 pp, cloth

ARTHURIAN LITERATURE SERIES

ARTHURIAN LITERATURE XXIX

Edited by ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD

& DAVID F. JOHSON

The influence and significance of the legend of Arthur are fully demonstrated by the subject matter and time-span of articles here, ranging from a mid twelfth-century Latin vita of the Welsh saint Dyfrig to the early modern Arthur of the Dutch. Topics addressed include the reasons for Edward III’s abandonment of the Order of the Round Table; the 1368 relocation of Arthur’s tomb at Glastonbury Abbey; the evidence for our knowledge of the French manuscript sources for Malory’s first tale; and the central role played by Cornwall in Malory’s literary worldview. Meanwhile, a survey of the pan-European aspects of medieval Arthurian literature, considering key characters in both familiar and less familiar languages such as Old Norse and Hebrew, further outlines its popularity and impact.

$90.00/£50.00; December 2012 978 1 84384 333 7 4 b/w illus; 256 pp, cloth

ARTHURIAN LITERATURE XXVIII Blood, Sex, Malory: Essays on the Morte Darthur

Edited by DAVID F. JOHSON & KATE MCCLUNE

$90.00/£50.00; October 2011 978 1 84384 281 1 216 pp, cloth

TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS IN THE STUDY OF MEDIEVAL The Influence of Derek Brewer

Edited by

CHARLOTTE BREWER

& BARRY WINDEATT

Derek Brewer (1923-2008) was one of the most influential medievalists of the twentieth century, first through his own publications and teaching, and later as a pioneer in academic publishing. Essays in this collection take their starting point from his ideas and interests, before offering their own fresh thinking in those key areas of medieval studies in which he pioneered innovations which remain central, from Chaucer’s knight and knightly virtues to the wholeness of Malory’s Morte Darthur. $90.00/£50.00; July 2013 978 1 84384 354 2; eISBN: 978 1 78204 117 7 6 line illus; 328 pp, cloth

FRENCH ARTHURIAN LITERATURE V The Lay of Mantel

Edited by GLYN S. BURGESS

& LESLIE C. BROOK

The Old French lay of Mantel belongs to a group of anonymous lays composed

in the late twelfth or thirteenth century, which usually deal with some aspect of love, usually in an aristocratic, courtly setting. Here, this is Arthur’s court, with its well-known characters involved, and the tone is satiric and comic; the story is a chastity test, which the ladies of the court undergo in public by donning the mantle - if it does not fit, their behaviour is betrayed. The popularity of the lay is attested by its survival in five manuscripts, an unusually high number. The text itself is accompanied by a facing translation, and presented with introduction, notes, bibliography, and indices.

$90.00/£50.00; February 2013 978 1 84384 338 2 184 pp, cloth

SHAPING COURTLINESS IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE Essays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

Edited by

DANIEL E. O’SULLIVAN

& LAURIE SHEPARD

Focused on works written in the Francophone world between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, they examine courtliness as both an historical privilege and a literary ideal, and as a concept that operated on and was informed by complex social and economic realities. The volume as a whole, uniting philosophical, theoretical, philological, and cultural approaches, demonstrates that medieval “courtliness” is an ideal that fascinates us to this day. It is thus a fitting tribute to the scholarship of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, in its exploration of the profound and wide-ranging ideas that define her contribution to the field.

$99.00/£60.00; February 2013 978 1 84384 335 1; eISBN: 978 1 78204 071 2 13 b/w illus; 312 pp, cloth

THE GRAIL, THE QUEST, AND THE WORLD OF ARTHUR

Edited by NORRIS J. LACY

The theme of the quest in Arthurian literature is explored in the essays presented here, covering French, Dutch, Norse, German, and English texts.

A number of the essays trace the relationship, often negative, between Arthurian chivalry and the Grail ethos. Whereas most of the contributors reflect on the popularity of the Grail quest, several examine the comparative rarity of the Grail in certain literatures and define the elaboration of quest motifs severed from the Grail material.

$99.00/£60.00; August 2012 978 1 84384 170 8; eISBN: 978 1 78204 020 0 50 color, 3 b/w & 1 line illus; 276 pp, cloth

THE CONTINUATIONS OF CHRÉTIEN’S PERCEVAL Content and Construction, Extension and Ending

LEAH TETHER

The Perceval Continuations constitute a vast body of material which incorporates

four separately authored Continuations, each of which seeks to further, in some way, the unfinished Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes—though they are not merely responses to his work. Here, these fascinating texts are used as a lens for examining, defining and distinguishing the whole concept of a Continuation.

$99.00/£60.00; June 2012 978 1 84384 316 0; eISBN: 978 1 84615 957 2 256 pp, cloth

HEROES AND ANTI-HEROES IN MEDIEVAL ROMANCE

Edited by NEIL CARTLIDGE

Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of villains that

they discourage recognition of just how morally ambiguous, antisocial or even downright sinister their protagonists can be, and, correspondingly, of just how admirable or impressive their defeated opponents often are. This tension between the heroic and the antiheroic makes a major contribution to the dramatic complexity of medieval romance, but it is not an aspect of the genre that has been frequently discussed up until now. Focusing on fourteen distinct characters and character-types in medieval narrative, this book illustrates the range of different ways in which the imaginative power and appeal of romance-texts often depend on contradictions implicit in the very ideal of heroism.

$99.00/£60.00; April 2012 978 1 84384 304 7; eISBN: 978 1 84615 870 4 264 pp, cloth

THE CONTE DU GRAAL CYCLE Chrétien de Troyes’s Perceval, the Continuations, and French Arthurian Romance

THOMAS HINTON

Chrétien de Troyes’s late twelfth-century Conte du

Graal has inspired writers and scholars from the moment of its composition to the present day. In one of the first studies to treat the Conte du Graal and its continuations as a unified work, Hinton considers the whole corpus as a narrative cycle. Widening the scope of enquiry to consider the corpus’s influence on thirteenth-century verse romances, this study re-situates the Conte du Graal cycle as a vital element in the evolution of Arthurian literature.

$130.00/£75.00; January 2012 978 1 84384 285 9; eISBN: 978 1 78204 212 9 4 b/w illus; 296 pp, cloth

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WOMEN’S POWER IN LATE MEDIEVAL ROMANCE

AMY N. VINES

The cultural and social power of women in the Middle Ages is perhaps hard to trace, with evidence for it scarce. This book

argues that medieval romances provide a central, but under-explored, source for and examples of such authority. By reassessing the influence exerted by female characters, in a spectrum that includes both intellectual and chivalric aid and, in some cases, patronage, it considers how they functioned as models of cultural, intellectual, and social authority in medieval literary texts.

$99.00/£60.00; October 2011 978 1 84384 275 0; eISBN: 978 1 84615 783 7 3 b/w illus; 184 pp, cloth

CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES IN PROSE The Burgundian Erec and Cligés

Translated by

JOAN TASKER GRIMBERT

& CAROL J. CHASE

In the middle of the fifteenth century two

anonymous writers “translated” into prose Chrétien de Troyes’s first verse romances, Erec and Cligés, for the circle of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy. This volume presents the first English prose translations of the writings, accompanied by an introduction presenting the historical, cultural, and literary context, and notes.

$99.00/£60.00; July 2011 978 1 84384 269 9; eISBN: 978 1 84615 685 4 176 pp, cloth

GERMAN ROMANCE IV Lanzelet

ULRICH VON ZATZIKHOVEN

Edited and Translated by

KATHLEEN J. MEYER

Ulrich von Zatzikhoven’s Lanzelet, dating from the end of the twelfth century, is a verse translation into Middle

High German of what was probably an Anglo-Norman romance, now lost. This volume presents the first full translation into English, with a new, facing edition of the Middle High German text. It is accompanied by an introduction, variant readings and notes to the translation.

$99.00/£60.00; June 2011 978 1 84384 266 8 536 pp, cloth

PERCEFOREST The Prehistory of King Arthur’s Britain

Translated by NIGEL BRYANT

Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is the subject of rapidly

increasing attention and research. It is set in pagan times, and tells the history of Britain before Arthur, with many extraordinary and magical adventures. Because of its enormous length—it runs to over a million words—Nigel Bryant has provided a version which gives a full synopsis of the plot and all the episodes linking extensive passages of translation.

$130.00/£75.00; March 2011 978 1 84384 262 0 824 pp, cloth

THINKING THROUGH CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES

ZRINKA STAHULJAK,

VIRGINIE GREENE,

SARAH KAY,

SHARON KINOSHITA &

PEGGY MCCRACKEN

This co-written book challenges assumptions about Chrétien. In lively exchanges, its five authors reassess the relationship between lyric and romance, between individuality and social conditions, and between psychology and medieval philosophy.

$99.00/£60.00; March 2011 978 1 84384 254 5; eISBN: 978 1 84615 852 0 216 pp, cloth

THE INTERLACE STRUCTURE OF THE THIRD PART OF THE PROSE LANCELOT

FRANK BRANDSMA

Thematically and as a narrative technique, interlace, the complex weaving together of many

different story-telling strands, comes to its full development in the intriguing conclusion of the Prose Lancelot. The intricate structure and the many different narrative threads of this work are here skilfully analysed, showing them to be a major new development in literary technique.

$99.00/£60.00; November 2010 978 1 84384 257 6; eISBN: 978 1 84615 912 1 312 pp, cloth

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MARIE DE FRANCE A Critical Companion

SHARON KINOSHITA

& PEGGY MCCRACKEN

The aim of this Companion is both to provide information on what can be gleaned of her

life, and on her poetry, and to rethink standard questions of interpretation, through topics with special relevance to medieval literature and culture. The variety of perspectives used highlights both the unity of Marie’s oeuvre and the distinctiveness of the individual texts.

$34.95/£19.99; April 2014 978 1 84384 373 3; eISBN: 978 1 84615 861 2 240 pp, paper

A PERCEFOREST READER Selected Episodes from Perceforest: The Prehistory of Arthur’s Britain

Translated by NIGEL BRYANT

Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most

extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a handful of scholars. A Perceforest Reader is an ideal introduction to the remarkable world portrayed in this late flowering of the Arthurian imagination.

$24.95/£12.99; April 2012 978 1 84384 290 3; eISBN: 978 1 84615 935 0 128 pp, paper

NORSE ROMANCE 3 volume paperback set

Edited by

MARIANNE E. KALINKE

Three volumes of Norse Arthurian romances in acclaimed editions in a specially-priced set.

Volume I: The Tristan Legend $45.00/£25.00; August 2012 978 1 84384 305 4

312 pp, paper

Volume II: The Knights of the Round Table $45.00/£25.00; August 2012 978 1 84384 306 1 336 pp, paper

Volume III: Hærra Ivan $45.00/£25.00; August 2012 978 184384 307 8 320 pp, paper

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A COMPANION TO MEDIEVAL POPULAR ROMANCE

Edited by

RALUCA L. RADULESCU &

CORY JAMES RUSHTON

The essays in this collection seek to provide an inclusive and thorough examination of romance. They provide contexts, definitions, and explanations for the genre, particularly in, but not limited to, an English

context. Topics covered include genre and literary classification; race and ethnicity; gender; orality and performance; the romance and young readers; metre and form; printing culture; and reception.

$29.95/£17.99; June 2011 978 1 84384 270 5 224 pp, paper

DUTCH ROMANCES 3 volume paperback set

Edited by

DAVID F. JOHNSON

& GEERT H. M. CLAASSENS

Available for the first time in paperback for the student, scholar or interested general

reader, these acclaimed volumes from D.S. Brewer’s Arthurian Archives series enable access to key texts by the non-specialist.

Volume I: Roman van Walewein $45.00/£25.00; August 2012 978 1 84384 308 5

552 pp, paper

Volume II: Ferguut $34.95/£19.99; August 2012 978 1 84384 309 2 272 pp, paper

Volume III: Five Interpolated Romances from the Lancelot Compilation$45.00/£25.00; August 2012 978 1 84384 310 8 320 pp, paper

3 Volume Set: $95.00/£55.00 978 1 84384 311 5

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